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Michael Esterman

Michael Esterman

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
39
Citations
6144
World Ranking
5692
National Ranking
2694

Overview

Michael Esterman is affiliated with Boston University in the United States. Their research spans multiple interconnected fields, primarily centered on neuroscience, medicine, and psychology. The scientist's work incorporates significant focus on cognitive and clinical aspects of brain function and behavior.

The main fields of study for Michael Esterman include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Medicine
  • Psychology

Within these areas, their research delves into important subfields such as:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Epidemiology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics related to brain function and psychological health. Key topics include:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Traumatic Brain Injury Research
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control

Michael Esterman has published frequently in several scientific venues, with multiple articles appearing in:

  • Journal of Vision
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • NeuroImage
  • Journal of Affective Disorders

Notable recent publications include:

  • Electrophysiological dynamics of antagonistic brain networks reflect attentional fluctuations (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Prediction of stimulus-independent and task-unrelated thought from functional brain networks (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Brain state-based detection of attentional fluctuations and their modulation (2021, NeuroImage)
  • Integration and segregation across large-scale intrinsic brain networks as a marker of sustained attention and task-unrelated thought (2021, NeuroImage)
  • Variable rather than extreme slow reaction times distinguish brain states during sustained attention (2021, Scientific Reports)

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Michael Esterman on multiple occasions include:

  • Joseph DeGutis
  • Regina E. McGlinchey
  • William Milberg
  • David Rothlein
  • Travis C. Evans

Best Publications

  • The Distribution and Mechanism of Action of Ghrelin in the CNS Demonstrates a Novel Hypothalamic Circuit Regulating Energy Homeostasis

    Michael A Cowley;Roy G Smith;Sabrina Diano;Matthias Tschöp

  • In the Zone or Zoning Out? Tracking Behavioral and Neural Fluctuations During Sustained Attention

    Michael Esterman;Sarah K. Noonan;Sarah K. Noonan;Monica Rosenberg;Joseph DeGutis;Joseph DeGutis

  • Sustained Attention Across the Life Span in a Sample of 10,000 Dissociating Ability and Strategy

    Francesca C. Fortenbaugh;Joseph DeGutis;Laura T. Germine;Jeremy B. Wilmer

  • Recent theoretical, neural, and clinical advances in sustained attention research.

    Francesca C. Fortenbaugh;Joseph DeGutis;Joseph DeGutis;Michael Esterman

  • Avoiding non-independence in fMRI data analysis: leave one subject out.

    Michael Esterman;Benjamin J. Tamber-Rosenau;Yu-Chin Chiu;Steven Yantis

  • Dynamic Brain Network Correlates of Spontaneous Fluctuations in Attention

    Aaron Kucyi;Michael J. Hove;Michael Esterman;Michael Esterman;R. Matthew Hutchison

  • Models of sustained attention

    Michael Esterman;Michael Esterman;David Rothlein

  • Control of spatial and feature-based attention in frontoparietal cortex.

    Adam S. Greenberg;Michael Esterman;Daryl Wilson;John T. Serences

  • Perceptual Expectation Evokes Category-Selective Cortical Activity

    Michael Esterman;Steven Yantis

  • Sustaining visual attention in the face of distraction: a novel gradual-onset continuous performance task

    Monica Rosenberg;Sarah Noonan;Sarah Noonan;Joseph DeGutis;Joseph DeGutis;Michael Esterman;Michael Esterman

  • Decoding cognitive control in human parietal cortex

    Michael Esterman;Yu-Chin Chiu;Benjamin J. Tamber-Rosenau;Steven Yantis

  • Spontaneous default network activity reflects behavioral variability independent of mind-wandering.

    Aaron Kucyi;Michael Esterman;Clay S. Riley;Eve M. Valera

  • Coming Unbound: Disrupting Automatic Integration of Synesthetic Color and Graphemes by Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation of the Right Parietal Lobe

    Michael Esterman;Timothy Verstynen;Richard B. Ivry;Lynn C. Robertson

  • Intrinsic Fluctuations in Sustained Attention and Distractor Processing

    Michael Esterman;Monica D Rosenberg;Monica D Rosenberg;Sarah K Noonan

  • Cortical mechanisms of cognitive control for shifting attention in vision and working memory

    Benjamin J. Tamber-Rosenau;Michael Esterman;Yu-Chin Chiu;Steven Yantis

  • Different effects of voluntary and involuntary attention on EEG activity in the gamma band.

    Ayelet N. Landau;Michael Esterman;Lynn C. Robertson;Shlomo Bentin

  • Adolescent nonsuicidal self-injury: Examining the role of child abuse, comorbidity, and disinhibition

    Randy Patrick Auerbach;Judy C. Kim;Joanna M Chango;Westley J. Spiro

  • Reward reveals dissociable aspects of sustained attention

    Michael Esterman;Andrew Reagan;Guanyu Liu;Caroline Turner

  • Electrophysiological dynamics of antagonistic brain networks reflect attentional fluctuations

    Aaron Kucyi;Amy Daitch;Omri Raccah;Baotian Zhao

  • Tracking behavioral and neural fluctuations during sustained attention: A robust replication and extension.

    Francesca C. Fortenbaugh;David Rothlein;Regina McGlinchey;Joseph DeGutis

  • Posttraumatic Psychological Symptoms are Associated with Reduced Inhibitory Control, not General Executive Dysfunction.

    Joseph DeGutis;Michael Esterman;Bay McCulloch;Andrew Rosenblatt

Frequent Co-Authors

Regina E. McGlinchey
Regina E. McGlinchey Boston University
William P. Milberg
William P. Milberg Boston University
Lynn C. Robertson
Lynn C. Robertson University of California, Berkeley
Steven Yantis
Steven Yantis Johns Hopkins University
Monica D. Rosenberg
Monica D. Rosenberg University of Chicago
Eve M. Valera
Eve M. Valera Harvard University
William Prinzmetal
William Prinzmetal University of California, Berkeley
Brian P. Marx
Brian P. Marx Boston University
Timothy Verstynen
Timothy Verstynen Carnegie Mellon University

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